The concert opens with Serbian composer Marko NIKODIJEVIĆ's music box / selbstportrait mit ligeti und strawinsky (und messiaen ist auch dabei). The piece masterfully blends the iconic musical languages of these three 20th-century masters, including micropolyphony, extended techniques, masterful orchestration, high-tension rhythmic language, and melodies with unique modal colors.

Next is Talea for ensemble by French spectral music pioneer Gérard GRISEY. The composer creates two distinct "musical gestures" from a single fundamental pitch's overtone series: one fast, loud, and ascending, the other slow, soft, and descending. Composed in two continuous sections, the piece cleverly juxtaposes machine-like precision with organic, unpredictable elements, exploring the dramatic potential of rupture without abandoning GRISEY's core principles of continuity.

German composer Johannes SCHÖLLHORN's Anamorphoses pour ensemble replaces fragments of BACH's The Art of Fugue with Francis PONGE's absurd text L'art de la figue. With exquisite craftsmanship, the piece is entirely unpretentious while exuding a cheerful, iconoclastic spirit.

The concert concludes with Le réseau des reprises by this year's composer-in-residence, Dieter AMMANN. This work explores the phenomena of repetition and variation on different levels, applying the principle of "extended reprise" to the overall structure. It's a forward-moving piece that creates both climactic and tranquil passages, showcasing a unique aesthetic of "repetition."

  Post-talk  

4/16(Thu) After the performance at Recital Hall

  Program  

Marko NIKODIJEVIĆ: music box / selbstportrait mit ligeti und strawinsky (und messiaen ist auch dabei)

Gérard GRISEY: Talea for Ensemble

Johannes SCHÖLLHORN: Anamorphoses pour ensemble ("Contrapunctus VI," "Contrapunctus IX," "Contrapunctus X," "Canon in Hypodiapason," "Canon per augmentationem in contrario motu")

Dieter AMMANN: La reseau des réprises

  Creative and Production Team  

Conductor｜Jean-Philippe WURTZ

Weiwuying Contemporary Music Ensemble

  Artists Introduction  

Conductor｜Jean-Philippe WURTZ

Born in 1968, Jean-Philippe WURTZ studied at the Strasbourg Conservatory, where he obtained first prizes in piano, chamber music, and analysis. He continued his conducting studies at the Karlsruhe Musikhochschule and with Peter EÖTVÖS at the International EÖTVÖS Institute, and received guidance from Ernest BOUR whom he met in Strasbourg. In 2001, he founded the LINEA ensemble devoted to contemporary music. From 1997-99, he served as Director of Musical Studies at the Opéra de Montpellier, from which he launched his international career.

WURTZ has been a regular invitee at major festivals - Strasbourg(Musica), Montpellier(Radio-France), Budapest(Autumn Festival), Bruxelles(Ars Musica), Huddersfield(HCMF), Madrid, Bucharest, Vitoria, Darmstadt(Ferienkursen), Buffalo(June in Buffalo), New York(Lincoln Center), France(Fondation Royaumont), Seoul(ACL)…, and conducted for Ensembles Modern, Musikfabrik, Talea, Alternance, Orchestre des Lauréats du Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, Orchestre National de Bordeaux Aquitaine, Orchestre National des Pays de Loire, Orchestre de l'Opéra de Rouen, Philharmonia Orchestra, and Bilbao Symphonic Orchestra, among others.

Jean-Philippe WURTZ is a very versatile performer, particularly appreciated in contemporary works and first performances. His repertoire includes more than 300 premieres, among them new works by Klaus HUBER, Peter EÖTVÖS, Brian FERNEYHOUGH, Michael JARRELL, Wolfgang RIHM, Younghi PAGH-PAAN, Raphaël CENDO, Francesco FILIDEI, Alberto POSADAS, Mark ANDRÉ, Frédéric DURIEUX, and Philippe MANOURY.

Jean-Philippe WURTZ is a regular teacher and conductor at the Haute école des arts du Rhin. Since 2015, he is Program Director at the Royaumont Foundation, where he curates the well known "Voix Nouvelles Academy" program.